List of Failed Hardware

This is a list of all the hardware I've purchased and my success (or lack thereof) with it. Note that all hardware eventually fails, so the products here aren't necessarily bad.

Company

Item

Part Number

Purchase Date

Fail Date

Longevity

Notes

Cowon

iAudio 20 GB

M5-20SL

2006-01

2012-12

6 years, 11 months

Had to RMA this after a couple months when the D-pad failed. USB port finally started separating from board. Got a lot of use out of this device. Deceptively labeled "color sound" on a black and white display.

Hitachi

1TB Hard Drive

9F13180

2012-11

2013-06

7 months

SATA 15-pin connector partially broke off. OEMed to Hitachi.

Maxtor

200GB Hard Drive

6L200P0

2006-07

2014-08

8 years, 1 month

By the time the drive failed, it was so out-dated I didn't have anything important on it.

Razer

DeathAdder Chroma

PM1501121724372

2016-??

2016-08

Less than a year.

The tracking and buttons still work fine, but after a few months, the scroll wheel became faulty. Scrolling down very often jumps back up, and scrolling up sometimes jumps down. Very frustrating flaw. I've also noticed that the laser often fails to track on surfaces that go from light to dark colors, even on mouse pads.

Samsung

Spinpoint 1TB Hard Drive

HD103UJ

2008-10

2012-12

2 years, 2 months

Drive started clicking, stopped responding. Read head failure. Lost a couple years of work with this one.

D-pad started to fail on the down arrow. Usable, but you have to press hard. Flash drive still works. Switched back after my other Clip Zip backlight failed, and used it for a couple more years before the headphone jack separated from the board. Wonderful workout DAP.

SanDisk

Sansa Clip Zip 4GB

SDMX22-004G-A57P

2013-05

2015-12

1 year, 7 months

D-pad started to fail on the down arrow. Backlight began to fail. Flash drive still works.

Toshiba

Gigabeat 40 GB

MEG-F40S

2007-07

2012-08

5 years, 1 month

Battery died and can't boot from USB power. Casing broke early on. Battery bloated and messed up D-pad, had to bend the casing to fix it. Poor design.

Xtreme Gear

700W ATX Power Supply

XG-P700

2012-05

2013-05

1 year

Good amount of cable hook-ups, but blew a capacitor. No storms at the time.